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Belfast Project: Boston College Seeks To Vacate Judge Young’s Order And Dismiss Its Own Appeal
Yesterday, Boston College filed a Suggestion of Death of Dolours Price. The procedure is a little odd, since Ms. Price was not a party to the proceedings: FRAP 43(a)(1) provides: If a party dies after a notice of appeal has been filed or while a proceeding is pending in the court of appeals, the decedent’s……
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What Happens to the Belfast Project Case After Dolours Price’s Death?
Update: One other point I want to make. I think the tapes will be released to the British authorities, but will they be made public? I think it is necessary to M&M’s case on the other tapes that the Price tapes must be made public. The policy justification for the oral history privilege they’ve asserted……
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BREAKING: Dolours Price, Central Figure in Belfast Project Case, Has Died
Dolours Price, the woman at the heart of the Belfast Project case, has died, according to news reports. Check back in with Letters Blogatory for analysis of what this will mean for the case. Update: I’ll be discussing this new development tomorrow on RTÉ Radio’s Morning Ireland program, which airs from 7 to 9 a.m.……
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Belfast Project: Amici Support Moloney & McIntyre
At least four amici have filed briefs in support of Ed Moloney and Anthony McIntyre’s petition for a writ of certiorari in the Belfast Project case. Here they are, without any editorial comment from me: Irish-American Groups’ Brief Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press’s Brief Article 19: Global Campaign For Free Expression’s Brief Social……
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Belfast Project: Review of Will Havemann’s Student Note
Ed Moloney has trumpeted news of a new piece in the Stanford Law Review Online on the Belfast Project: There is a brilliant article in the current issue of the Stanford Law Review, one of the most prestigious in America. Its past editors have included one Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, William Rehnquist and……